I feel this game has had the most hype so far for a 3rd party wii game... this could very well help it. (comparing hype to other console's games is irrelevant really as they are not competition for it...)

I believe no local multi is a grave error....

but I also think that the game will easely break the million... by how much, I have no idea.

Do people actually think Internet hype makes much of a difference? I'd imagine the strong reviews help the legs (Albeit I don't think The Conduit is due that strong a critical reception). If you think of something like Zack & Wiki though, with IGN's Buy Zack and Wiki campaign, lots of other sites praising it / telling people to buy it etc and didn't that have first week sales of like 40k? :/.

Sure enough it got to 500k (Very good sales for a game of that nature), helped mainly due to price cuts, strong reviews and Nintendo publishing / advertising the game in Europe.

Point being, internet hype and forum discussions are so insignificient in judging if a game will sell, and anyone who's been here a few months will be able to produce a list of games which prove that fact either way round for flops and big sellers, on all the consoles.

So er, stop saying that the hype of Mad World and The Conduit will sell it, as it won't make enough of a difference when we're supposedly talking 1 million + sales.

LoL so succesfull hardcore game has sales of 500k on Wii? Platform that has almost 50% market share ?

 Judging from the sales of nearly every hardcore game without a flagship Nintendo mascot on the front thus far, yes 0_o.

 Sure enough the Sonic's and Resident Evils sell far above 1 million, but they have Sonic and Resident Evil on the front, two of the most well known gaming franchises with huge appeal to the core Nintendo market (As shown with their sames on the GameCube last gen).

 in terms of financials the lower the number required to be successfull the better. no matter what userbase it has

I think if the game is quality we are looking at a minimum of 1.5 million, about what MP3 did, but MP3 launched on a userbase of 13-14 million, this game will be launching on a 50 million userbase. If it catches on at all watch out, the Wii have a massive userbase and there are not really too many other games competing with it. I can see it doing 3 million if things go its direction.

I'd be very surprised if it doesn't sell 1.5 million copies.
There's a lot of hype for the game, which al but ensure decent pick up among the core groups. This will also ensure lots of retail exposure to the game. And FPS isn't a real hardcore genre, it has become quite approachable for more casual gamers over the years.

Plus I expect Sega to do a lot of marketing as well. You can't compare this with MoH: H2 (no hype, PS2/PSP port) and CoD:WaW (is more complete on other platforms) since this is an exclusive and seems to do everything right.

It will make use of wii motion plus, if they bundle the perypheral with the game it should increase sales to a level that would surpass Halo 3!!!!!!

(joke mode: off)

Well I don't view it as a hardcore game but I would agree that its "hardcore" in the stereotypical sense.

Personally I think there is a lot of hype surrounding the title and that when marketing comes around that will increase. I worry about sales in Europe, but in America they should be fine. FPS's usually don't have too many problems selling there.

As long as the game gets good advertising around release and good reviews it should do fine.

Very excited to see how the Conduit sells worldwide.

For those in the know, is there a set release date for it yet? I know Reggie was excited for the title, as per one of his last reviews, so it's good that it has NoA's backing in some form.